Technorati Tags: Team Foundation Server 2010,TFS API,TFS SDK 2010,TFS ALM Download a working solution Demo Solution Download I have seen a lot of questions in the community lately on how to use the TFS ...

In my current job as a Senior ALM Consultant, part of what I do is help organizations get TFS set up and configured. While a single server installation is pretty easy (and using the basic configuration ...

To remove all source control from a TFS project (not a VS project!) - you must use the 'tf destroy' tool. If, like me you try to delete the top-level directory/project node in Source Control Explorer (within ...

Yesterday morning I received the wonderful news on my sessions proposal being accepted. With that said, I will be presenting at the SharePoint Saturday The Conference. My session: Requirements Management: ...

If you're like me you've been using SSRS 2008 for a long time with TFS and have constantly had to delete the bin folder in order for builds to work. This has irritated me to no end. Well today is my lucky ...

Technorati Tags: Team Foundation Server 2010,Team Foundation Utilities,TFS2010 Oh no! Did you just check in a changeset in to TFS and realized that you need to roll back the changeset because the changes ...

I have had the chance to talk at many conferences these past few years, and came up with a way to prepare them which works really well for me. Most importantly, it would make it quite easy to overcome ...

For anyone that is working in a Release Management environment with TFS at the helm, and having Build Management strategies and processes defined, this is a must have. Look at the codeplex site, great ...

Willy-Peter Schaub has been a machine producing and posting content. It is such a gem of information that you can find in the content being posted. He has created some Summary Posts on the specific topics ...

Great! You have reached that point where you would like to extend TFS. The first step is to connect to TFS programmatically. Download: Working Demo - VS 2010 Working Demo - VS 2012In this blog post I’ll ...

Technorati Tags: TFS 2010 Database,TFS 2010,TFS 2010 Administration Considering you have an advanced TFS installation such that the app tier and the data and reporting tier are spread across multiple servers ...

Technorati Tags: TFS 2010,TFS Power Tools,UnShelve Often i have seen fellow developer working on one branch and later realizing that they intended to check in the code in a different branch, a simple example, ...

One of the greatest benefits of building your solution flies in MSBuild (vs in Visual Studio directly) is that it doesn't lock up the Visual Studio UI, which can be a huge pain if you have a large solution ...

I stumbled across this great post showing how you can use the TFS Power Tools to automatically deploy your custom TFS check-in policies to everyone on your team… Read more at http://blog.danskingdom.com... ...

There have been some great announcements at the Tech-ed North America 2011. The announcements have been around, Enhanced User Experience Agile Planning Tools Lightweight Requirements Stakeholder Feedback ...

TFS Deployer is installed as an agent on your the machine you would like to deploy to. TFS Deployer service listens to the build quality change notificaions generated by TFS. TFS Deployer checks the Event ...

One of the several hats I wear at work is one of configuration manager for the internal data management application my employer uses. This app currently has 11 solutions of active code which need to be ...

[Updated with an answer to Question 3] Once again I want to thank everyone who came out for my talk on IntelliTrace and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate yesterday at Tech Ed 2011! After querying some MVPs and ...

Microsoft has released an updated virtual machine for Visual Studio 2010 RTM including TFS, Microsoft Test Manager, all the bits. Also includes sample projects and hands on labs. The previous version expires ...

If you’ve recently upgraded to SP1 and tried to build a solution checked out from TFS you might have come across the following dialog. Not only does it not allow you to cancel the build process, but it ...

This is my review of TFS Hosting: The current offer from DiscountASP is the same than other vendors like SaaS Made Easy, both offers a "basic" version of TFS2010, with similar capabilities about the Project ...

This has been an interesting topic to have discussions around planning storage and storage requirements organizations need to consider. FILESTREAM provides a means to consider storage of unstructured data ...

Notes from Windows Azure Drives: http://wabcdemos.cloudapp.net/ Why use this? One example is to satify PDF requirement (PDF files require a local temp drive) Durable NTFS drives Can be up to 1TB Commands: ...

With the ability to extend Visual Studio 2010, lots of great extensions have popped up. These not only increase productivity, but make the whole coding experience much nicer. To find and install extensions, ...

RedGate SQL Source Control is a Management Studio add-in that allows you to seamlessly (hopefully...) connect your existing source control system to SQL Server. It is advertised as doing all the typical ...

I have found myself using more and more of the tools Red Gate software makes. They have proven (to me) to be effective and to the point. This time I am talking about SQL Source Control. Simple to use, ...

The button to jump directly to a work item by specifying its ID looks to be on the Work Item Tracking toolbar by default in VS / TFS 2010. This button is not on the toolbar by default in VS / TFS 2008 ...

In TFS2008, deleting a build removes it from the database itself. If you delete a build called Build_20110423.1 or 1.0.0.1 from Build Explorer and trigger the build again then you will see that new builds ...

The error seems to be quite simplistic, but you might need to do quite a bit to resolve this. I created a new BI site and was welcomed by the Error Message "The WorkBook cannot be opened". Did some google ...

*Moved to: In-Place upgrade of TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 with move to new domain I had a particularly complicated upgrade this time that required me to do two things: In-Place upgrade of TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 ...

So if you are able to build (compile) the solution on your local machine, but it won't build on the TFS build server and you are getting an error message similar to: Read more at http://blog.danskingdom.com... ...

A little while back we published the Search Work Items for TFS 2010 extension in the Visual Studio Gallery. Noah Coad recently added Cory and I as Developers on the existing Search Work Items CodePlex ...

In February I did a post about moving to DiscountASP.Net TFS Hosting from SVN. I promised to give some feedback a few months later to say how we were finding it. Well, it has been 2 months and no headaches ...

Full Disclaimer: Since I am on the GeeksWithBlog.NET Influencer list, I was issued a free 1-year subscription to DiscountASP.NET TFS2010 remote hosting. With that said, the thoughts/opinions located below ...

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I’ll be speaking on IntelliTrace at Tech Ed 2001 – North America. This blog post is the first in a series that I’ll publish as I delve into IntelliTrace in more ...

If you have a lot of TFS build definitions for your projects, its been a bit of a hassle that there is no way to organize and manage them in Team Explorer other than a long flat list. Well, the good folks ...

If you are going to be in the Washington D.C. area on April 28th, and you want to learn more about both Scrum, and how to utilize Scrum with Team Foundation Server 2010, then you really need to attend ...

We have just released a free extension for Visual Studio which adds a Builds Explorer with folders to the Team Explorer. The extension can be downloaded from Visual Studio Gallery or just search for Inmeta ...